A 22-year-old Cresskill woman told Hoboken police that a man became irate and punched her in the face when she rebuffed his bid to strike up a conversation early Sunday morning, police said.Journal File Photo

HOBOKEN – A 22-year-old Cresskill woman told Hoboken police that a man became irate and punched her in the face when she rebuffed his bid to strike up a conversation early Sunday morning, police said.

A few hours earlier in the same area, police charged a Ridgefield man in a bloody assault on a Long Beach man after the Long Beach man’s girlfriend rebuffed the Ridgefield man at a bar in Hoboken.

The Cresskill woman approached a police officer at 2:14 a.m. and told him the incident happened after a man tried to start a conversation with her while she was walking toward a municipal parking garage at Hudson and Second streets, reports said.